Pickett v. Farrow

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The judgment denied the appellant, Wilson Pickett, custody of his three children in a habeas corpus proceeding. The ap-pellee, Charlotte Farrow, is their maternal grandmother. The children are girls, aged 13, 10 and 9 years. The parties are colored; people.

*463The' appellant and his wife moved from Harlan County, Kentucky, to Boston Massachusetts, about fourteen years ago. The mother had been sick for three years and in a hospital for eleven months before her death on December 24, 1959. The father was seriously ill earlier in that month. The grandmother had gone to Boston…